@bdimarco.bsky.social
Began as an education activist. Then realized it’s all connected. Need an active Poor People’s campaign.
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He believes it is crucial that we pivot from the old paradigm of “pave, pipe and pump” and instead begin to “slow and store” water, pumping only as necessary.
Reducing storm water to drainage — essentially equating it with sewerage — is “a perverse exclusion of opportunity,” Waggonner says.
Reducing storm water to drainage — essentially equating it with sewerage — is “a perverse exclusion of opportunity,” Waggonner says.
This 2017 piece from Jed Horne after the summer floods in New Orleans feels appropriate today.
In Milwaukee on Sunday, the Menomonee river basin overflow park did its job with 10" of rain.
Time to recognize the basic flaw in our whole approach to flood prevention
thelensnola.org/2017/08/11/t...
In Milwaukee on Sunday, the Menomonee river basin overflow park did its job with 10" of rain.
Time to recognize the basic flaw in our whole approach to flood prevention
thelensnola.org/2017/08/11/t...
Time to recognize the basic flaw in our whole approach to flood prevention | The Lens
How many wake-up calls do we need before we go Dutch?
thelensnola.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
He believes it is crucial that we pivot from the old paradigm of “pave, pipe and pump” and instead begin to “slow and store” water, pumping only as necessary.
Reducing storm water to drainage — essentially equating it with sewerage — is “a perverse exclusion of opportunity,” Waggonner says.
Reducing storm water to drainage — essentially equating it with sewerage — is “a perverse exclusion of opportunity,” Waggonner says.
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94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
July 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
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The Big Ugly Bill throws millions off Medicaid and SNAP, gives ICE more money than most militaries, and makes the wealthiest households in America even richer.
Heather and I break it all down on today's Klatch. https://youtu.be/Yc4xl3nz_Ac?si=nj70FlizV909V1Y6
Heather and I break it all down on today's Klatch. https://youtu.be/Yc4xl3nz_Ac?si=nj70FlizV909V1Y6
Fascism On The Fourth | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
The Big Ugly Bill throws millions off Medicaid and SNAP, gives ICE more money than most militaries, and makes the wealth
youtu.be
July 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Big Ugly Bill throws millions off Medicaid and SNAP, gives ICE more money than most militaries, and makes the wealthiest households in America even richer.
Heather and I break it all down on today's Klatch. https://youtu.be/Yc4xl3nz_Ac?si=nj70FlizV909V1Y6
Heather and I break it all down on today's Klatch. https://youtu.be/Yc4xl3nz_Ac?si=nj70FlizV909V1Y6
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A mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes in shame was created by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw. It is in a high population area of immigrants in France…!!!
She said ‘The values that the statue once stood for - freedom hope, the right to be yourself - have been lost for many’…!!!
She said ‘The values that the statue once stood for - freedom hope, the right to be yourself - have been lost for many’…!!!
July 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes in shame was created by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw. It is in a high population area of immigrants in France…!!!
She said ‘The values that the statue once stood for - freedom hope, the right to be yourself - have been lost for many’…!!!
She said ‘The values that the statue once stood for - freedom hope, the right to be yourself - have been lost for many’…!!!
www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
I didn’t think the US government could stoop any lower but here we are. An innocent resident of New Orleans, born in Iran, lived here for 50 years is arrested by ICE.
I didn’t think the US government could stoop any lower but here we are. An innocent resident of New Orleans, born in Iran, lived here for 50 years is arrested by ICE.
Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home
Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.
www.theadvocate.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
I didn’t think the US government could stoop any lower but here we are. An innocent resident of New Orleans, born in Iran, lived here for 50 years is arrested by ICE.
I didn’t think the US government could stoop any lower but here we are. An innocent resident of New Orleans, born in Iran, lived here for 50 years is arrested by ICE.
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This is oligarchy. This is obscene.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
June 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is oligarchy. This is obscene.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
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Watch this space — and bring your popcorn.
June 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Watch this space — and bring your popcorn.
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Instead of placing homeless families in shelters, where they receive food, help finding housing and sometimes child care, New York social service agencies park them in hotels, where they receive no such support. Important story:
How Hotels, Once a Last Resort, Became New York’s Default Answer to Homelessness
Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from accessing services like child care and help finding housing.
www.propublica.org
June 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Instead of placing homeless families in shelters, where they receive food, help finding housing and sometimes child care, New York social service agencies park them in hotels, where they receive no such support. Important story:
What would we do without AOC and others. LA residents are being cut off Medicaid but yet we are still allowing United Health Care defrauding the public by $80B a year.
AOC: You are not aware that the Trump Department of Justice is investigating the largest insurance company in America for fraud of Medicare Advantage that you have jurisdiction over?
June 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
What would we do without AOC and others. LA residents are being cut off Medicaid but yet we are still allowing United Health Care defrauding the public by $80B a year.
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June 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Psst…those 1950s manufacturing jobs Trump loves so much?
They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs.
Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher.
Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.”
It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.
They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs.
Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher.
Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.”
It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.
May 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Psst…those 1950s manufacturing jobs Trump loves so much?
They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs.
Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher.
Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.”
It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.
They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs.
Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher.
Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.”
It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.
Well speaking as a resident of New Orleans and observer of the system of charter schools here, good luck Memphis because charters aren’t going to make it better for poor kids and families. Much better off with sustainable community school model!
⚡️ UPDATE: House Republicans just passed the state takeover of MEMPHIS Schools 63-30
Barrett, Fritts, Martin, Reneau, Warner,
Moon joined the Dems in opposing the blatant state government overreach into local affairs (likely to enrich charter school operators)
Barrett, Fritts, Martin, Reneau, Warner,
Moon joined the Dems in opposing the blatant state government overreach into local affairs (likely to enrich charter school operators)
April 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Well speaking as a resident of New Orleans and observer of the system of charter schools here, good luck Memphis because charters aren’t going to make it better for poor kids and families. Much better off with sustainable community school model!
And be aware, you will be deported once they get your name!
BREAKING: Education Department says it will begin collection on student loans for over 5 million borrowers in default.
Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says
The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.
bit.ly
April 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
And be aware, you will be deported once they get your name!
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It isn't just the stock markets collapsing. Trump is also collapsing the U.S. Dollar. That is a very, very bad sign.
Not only will American consumers be paying for tariffs in higher costs, but the purchasing power of their money will not stretch as far.
#TrumpEconomy
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/u...
Not only will American consumers be paying for tariffs in higher costs, but the purchasing power of their money will not stretch as far.
#TrumpEconomy
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/u...
U.S. dollar falls to three-year low as Trump's Powell threats further dent investor confidence
The dollar hit its lowest level since March 2022, continuing an April slide.
www.cnbc.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It isn't just the stock markets collapsing. Trump is also collapsing the U.S. Dollar. That is a very, very bad sign.
Not only will American consumers be paying for tariffs in higher costs, but the purchasing power of their money will not stretch as far.
#TrumpEconomy
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/u...
Not only will American consumers be paying for tariffs in higher costs, but the purchasing power of their money will not stretch as far.
#TrumpEconomy
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/u...
Participated in an ICE protest in New Orleans today. Every Wednesday, ICE office, 1250 Poydras, at noon until this insanity ends:
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Participated in an ICE protest in New Orleans today. Every Wednesday, ICE office, 1250 Poydras, at noon until this insanity ends:
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
What on the world is going on?
There’s a wasp, whose larvae get into other insects’ bodies and take them over, and control the host insect from the inside.
Who’s driving the husk of Rubio around?
Who’s driving the husk of Rubio around?
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
www.politico.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
What on the world is going on?
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"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
www.theatlantic.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Thank you David Brooks for this fabulous article! I truly needed to see it today. After the protest on Saturday, it became clear we will be fighting for the next 3 years and several months.
Thank you David Brooks for this fabulous article! I truly needed to see it today. After the protest on Saturday, it became clear we will be fighting for the next 3 years and several months.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won...
www.theatlantic.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Thank you David Brooks for this fabulous article! I truly needed to see it today. After the protest on Saturday, it became clear we will be fighting for the next 3 years and several months.
Thank you David Brooks for this fabulous article! I truly needed to see it today. After the protest on Saturday, it became clear we will be fighting for the next 3 years and several months.
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“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”
The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.
He was not dead.
He was not dead.
I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle
“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
www.seattletimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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Still think it’s NOT a coup?!?
Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.
March 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Still think it’s NOT a coup?!?
Absolute insanity!
Filed under “are you fucking kidding me?!?”
Muskolini cut contracts with the VA for sterilization of surgical equipment. Cancels cancer follow up care.
Happy with your choice, veterans who voted for Trump?
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #TrumpIsACriminal
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
Muskolini cut contracts with the VA for sterilization of surgical equipment. Cancels cancer follow up care.
Happy with your choice, veterans who voted for Trump?
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #TrumpIsACriminal
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
DOGE plans to cut VA contracts may harm veterans' care, employees say
The list of contracts on the chopping block hasn't been made public, and the VA declined to provide it. NBC News reviewed documents identifying 200 of the contracts scheduled for cancellation.
www.nbcnews.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Absolute insanity!
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The protest was nine hours before this nothing statement came out.
March 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The protest was nine hours before this nothing statement came out.